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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:50 pm    Post subject: Gentoo installer not identifying hard disk partitions Reply with quote

The Gentoo installer does not identifies my hard disk partitions, it shows the hard disk as being empty, so I can not install without deleting everything, it seems.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For more information about the hardware, booting with Knoppix, this was the result of executing "lspci":
Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
0000:00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)


Maybe the solution is loading a driver or something like this for the Promise "mass storage controller"?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are your partitions listed /proc/partitions?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The partitions are listed correctly when doing cat /proc/partitions

Code:
major minor  #blocks  name
   7     0     666884 loop0
  33     0   39082680 hde
  33     2    4514233 hde2
  33     4          1 hde4
  33     5   29334658 hde5
   8     0    4030463 sda
   8     1     104800 sda1
   8     2          1 sda2
   8     3    3818304 sda3
   8     5     104800 sda5


Note: "hde" is the hard disk, and "sda" is the USB memory (no problem reading/writing in this one).
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When being the user root, doing
Code:
fdisk -l /dev/hde

shows a lot of errors.

Also, when doing dmesg it says those errors:
Code:
_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 4
[...]
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 9028287
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 9028288
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 9028289
[...]
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 63
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 64
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 65
[...]
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 9028530
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
i2c_adapter i2c-9191: sensors disabled - enable with force_addr=0xe200
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That looks a lot like a hardware problem. If you have any way of checking the health of that harddisk I suggest you check it. Iirc the livecd has smartmontools on it, so perhaps smartctl -a /dev/hde can tell you something about more.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The tests I have made show ok results. The health of the hard disk is good, in fact I'm writing this all booting from the Windows partition of this hard disk.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, boot the knoppix cd then and look at the output of fdisk again. Does the knoppix fdisk complain too?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Under Knoppix the fdisk command shows no errors, it works as expected.

Also, when booting the gentoo install disk I've tried booting with the "kernel option"
Code:
gentoo nodma

also with
Code:
gentoo ide=nodma

and another time with
Code:
gentoo noudev

but the results are the same.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your gentoo cd is probably buggered then. Did you check the md5sum after downloading it?
You can install using the knoppix cd, but it will be an old style manual installation (which is far more reliable than the installer according to many).
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've checked the md5sum of the Gentoo livecd, and it showed to be ok.
Before writing to this forum, I also downloaded the Gentoo livedvd, checked the md5sum, and the results (apart from the initial screens :-)) trying to install and with fdisk were the same.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the Gentoo liveCD, and the liveDVD, but only a modem (a 56kbps connection), so I have to use the networkless installation.

However, when reading the documentation of installing with Knoppix, it says
Quote:
At this point, you can pick up with the standard install documentation at part 4 [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4].
... and points to the installation with a (fast) internet connection; in next steps like http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 it makes you go downloading big files from Internet.

Trying to read the documentation of installing Gentoo without an Internet connection in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4 it only gives one way: executing with an installer program (the "CLI" installer or the "GUI" one), but booting with Knoppix you can not see the install program in the CD or DVD.

So booting with Knoppix people with modem connections can not install Gentoo? is there another way?
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